Geographic
Information Systems

Metadata
Information

Welcome to the Colville
National Forest GIS Data Dictionary. This page contains GIS data and metadata for commonly requested datasets.. The datasets are organized by
theme. A list of themes is in the frame on the left hand side of the page.

The metadata files contain information about the data: geographic coordinate information; how the dataset was buildt; featureclasses contained within the dataset; and who to contact with questions about the published datasets. A phone number and name of the data steward is contained within the metadata file. Please contact the data steward if you have any questions about the content of the data.

Data files served
on this site are personal or file geodatabases that
have been compressed with WinZip. Projection is a local Albers
projection defined for the area of Oregon and Washington in Region 6 of
the Forest Service, NAD 83. Units are in meters.

Contact information for each dataset is contained within the metadata.